Head of Business Architecture and Product Ownership

American Modern Insurance Group, Inc., a Munich Re company, is a widely recognized specialty insurance leader that delivers products and services for residential property – such as manufactured homes and specialty dwellings – and the recreational market, including boats, personal watercraft, classic cars, and more. We provide specialty product solutions that cover what the competition often can’t.

Headquartered in Amelia, Ohio, and with associates located across the United States, we are part of Munich Re’s Global Specialty Insurance division. Our employees receive boundless opportunity to grow their careers and make a difference every day. 

Head of Business Architecture and Product Ownership

This is a rare opportunity to step into a newly created senior leadership role at a pivotal moment in American Modern’s transformation journey. As Head of Business Architecture and Product Ownership, you will help shape how strategy becomes execution across the enterprise, building the capability roadmap, product ownership discipline, and governance practices that will support long-term growth, modernization, and business impact.

Reporting to the Chief Digital and Operations Officer, this leader will have executive visibility and the opportunity to influence across business, technology, data, operations, and transformation teams. The role is designed for someone who can connect the big picture to practical execution, turning complex priorities into clear roadmaps, scalable capabilities, and measurable outcomes.

The ideal candidate is a strategic change leader who thrives in a highly collaborative environment and can earn trust across American Modern business leaders, Munich Re stakeholders, technology and data partners, product owners, transformation teams, and external partners. This is a high-impact opportunity for a leader who brings business architecture expertise, product ownership maturity, enterprise influence, and the confidence to help shape what comes next.

Key Responsibilities:

Enterprise Capability Strategy & Business Architecture

• Shape and steward the enterprise capability model and roadmap, helping AMIG connect strategic priorities, Munich Re alignment, business needs, and modernization goals into a clear path forward.
• Create clarity and momentum across value streams, workflows, and business processes by identifying opportunities to simplify, standardize, and scale while preserving the specialty insurance expertise that makes AMIG distinctive.
• Serve as a thought leader on capability maturity, operating model design, business architecture frameworks, and transformation priorities that help the organization move with focus and discipline.

Product Ownership, Roadmap Governance & Prioritization

• Turn enterprise strategy into actionable priorities, decision guardrails, and roadmap governance practices that help Product Owners deliver the right work at the right time.
• Build, coach, and lead a team of high-performing Product Owners, including dotted-line relationships when Product Owners are embedded in business units, while creating a culture of rigor, collaboration, accountability, and thought diversity.
• Guide roadmap prioritization and sequencing decisions by balancing value, risk, dependencies, regulatory needs, readiness, change capacity, and enterprise trade-offs.

Technology, Data & Platform Enablement

• Partner closely with technology, data, analytics, architecture, and delivery leaders to shape enterprise-grade platform solutions that enable future-ready capabilities.
• Advance data-enabled, scalable enterprise capabilities that are grounded in business outcomes, operational usability, and sustainable adoption.
• Bring forward relevant product, platform, data, automation, and digital trends that can strengthen AMIG’s operating model and create broader opportunities across Munich Re.

Stakeholder Leadership & Organizational Influence

• Build trusted, productive relationships with AMIG executives, Munich Re stakeholders, business leaders, technology and data partners, product owners, and external partners.
• Influence and align cross-organizational teams around shared priorities, practical decisions, and disciplined execution.
• Champion KPI-driven decision-making that creates transparency, strengthens mutual understanding, and supports clear alignment on enterprise trade-offs.

What We’re Looking For:

• A seasoned leader with 10 or more years of experience in business architecture, product ownership, enterprise transformation, operating model design, technology-enabled business change, or a related discipline.
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
• Experience developing enterprise capability models, roadmaps, transformation plans, and governance mechanisms in complex environments.
• Exposure to agile delivery, scaled product practices, Lean, DMAIC, portfolio management, project management, or enterprise transformation methods.
• A collaborative leadership style with the ability to earn trust, negotiate priorities, and build alignment across business, technology, data, finance, transformation, and executive stakeholders. 
• A clear communication style with the ability to translate complex business and technical topics into executive narratives, decision materials, and actionable recommendations. 
• A strong understanding of insurance operations, including policy, underwriting, billing, claims, distribution, and related data and technology capabilities. 
• A track record of partnering with technology, data, analytics, enterprise architecture, delivery, finance, and change management teams to shape and deliver transformation outcomes. 
• The ability to build business cases, conduct financial and portfolio analysis, and communicate meaningful trade-offs to executive audiences.

Why This Role Matters:

This role offers the opportunity to influence enterprise direction, shape how work gets prioritized and delivered, and help build the connective tissue between strategy, technology, data, and execution. For a leader who enjoys solving complex problems, building trusted partnerships, and creating clarity across a changing business, this is an opportunity to make a visible and lasting impact.

The Company is open to considering candidates in numerous locations, including Princeton (NJ), New York (NY), Chicago (IL), or Cincinnati (OH). The salary range posted below reflects market variations across various locations. The offer will be adjusted per geography.

The base salary range anticipated for this position is $175,000 - $250,000, plus opportunity for company bonus based upon a percentage of eligible pay.  In addition, the company makes available a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, 401k match, retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

The salary estimate is adjusted to reflect the varying market conditions across different locations, with the with the higher end being more aligned with the New York job market. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to other employees already in this role. Most candidates will start in the bottom half of the range.

We are proud to offer employees, their domestic partners, and their children a wide range of insurance benefits, including:

• Two options for your health insurance plan (PPO or High Deductible).
• Prescription drug coverage (included in your health insurance plan).
• Vision and dental insurance plans.
• Additional insurance coverages provided at no cost to you, such as basic life insurance equal to 1x annual salary and AD&D coverage that is equal to 1x annual salary.
• Short and Long Term Disability coverage.
• Supplemental Life and AD&D plans that you can purchase for yourself and dependents (includes Spouse/domestic partner and children).
• Voluntary Benefit plans that supplement your health and life insurance plans (Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity).

In addition to the above insurance offerings, our employees also enjoy:

• A robust 401k plan with up to a 5% employer match
• A retirement savings plan that is 100% company funded.
• Paid time off that begins with 24 days each year, with more days added when you celebrate milestone service anniversaries.
• Eligibility to receive a yearly bonus as a Munich Re employee.
• A variety of health and wellness programs provided at no cost.
• Paid time off for eligible family care needs.
• Tuition assistance and educational achievement bonuses.
• A corporate matching gifts program that further enhances your charitable donation.
• Paid time off to volunteer in your community.

At American Modern, we see diversity and inclusion as essential to meeting the challenges and opportunities around us. Our goal is to foster an inclusive culture and build a workforce that reflects the communities in which we live and work. We strive to provide a workplace where all colleagues feel respected, valued, and empowered to achieve their best every day. We recruit and develop talent with a focus on providing our customers with innovative products and services.

We are an equal opportunity employer.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.